feu or fee

one of the four conditions, or tenures, in Scots law on which lands could be granted by charter.  In this case, the superior received (usually annually) a return (‘feu duty‘) in agricultural produce or money, rather than military service. The ‘fee’ or ‘feu’ was also the name of the piece of property so conveyed, and the feuar was the vassal who held the property by feu tenure.